The New Science

[Marta Russell]

>On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, joanna bujes wrote:
>
>>  anti-depressants...that being that they are, in the main, drugs that
>>  increase one's agitational level and that, in fact, the risk for suicide
>>  rises as much in the control group (of nondepressed patients) as it does
>>  with those who are suffering from depression.

Miles wrote:


>As I understand the literature on SSRIs like Prozac, the drug seems to
>provoke suicidal ideation and behavior in a small number of people who
>take it.  I don't think it's a general, powerful effect on everyone.
>People respond in surprisingly diverse ways to these drug therapies, as
>a number of people on the list have posted.
>
>But the pharmas still run ads making drugs sound like magic bullets...
>

What is left out is that there are serious withdrawal complications 
with some of the SSRI's which have also resulted in deaths and 
suicides when one attempts to go off the drug.  They are marketed as 
"non-addictive" but there is a withdrawal for lots of folks.  The 
MANUFACTURER of Paxil is now being sued for not labeling the drug as 
having withdrawal issues.

Marta
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